Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-04
LADY GRlSWOLD,
THE DAM OF KENT AND ALLEY.
BY Allen w. Thomson.

| lToll lnc ldcl lIldl size was HOJ Olly
remarkably fast trotter in her day, but
that she transmitted in very marked
degree her great speed to her produce,
and that it has come out in still greater
force in her grandchildren. The beauty of
breeding any of the domestic animals,
and certainly the trotter, is to have
blood so prepotent as to reproduce itself
and to grow stronger in the third and
fourth remove.
In considering the speed of trotter,
the time must be remembered when the
speed was shown; as a 2 80 horse was
more once than 2.20 is now. 1t was so
when Lady Griswold showed three trials
to wagon, all better than 80, and one
of them in , rs. 1t is claimed she show
ed a half in IL. At this time but one
trotter Flora Temple) had broken the
magic circle of 20.
Lady Griswold was owned for several
years by the late George Bolton Allen
of New York, who purchased her of Mr..
Tower. or his representative, w. Z. Balch;
and Mr.. Allen, in reply to inquiries re-
garding her. wrote: Lady Griswold was
natural trotter, and the fastest up to
that time driven on the road. All her
produce were fast, but none ever trained.
a full sister of Kent that sold to Mr.. +.
Simmons trOtted full mile in = ID and a
fraction to wagon. Lady Griswold had
three colts by Messenger Duroc, all of
which could beat 80 considerably. Lady
Griswold was by Flying Morgan, the dis
puted sire of Ethan Allen
Kent and his sister were by Hamble-
tonan 10. Kent has one in the 2 80 list.
Lady Barefoot, :25 81, and several
that can enter when asked. Alley.
his sister, is the dam of Wilton, br.
h.. 2 10 II. and Albert France, b. G., 2 30
II, both by George Wilkes. 1t is under
stood and called that Lady Griswold was
by Adams Flying Morgan, but no one
has been able to give her breeder. or to
tell where she was bred and raised. The
owners of her son, Kent, have tried for
several years to get these facts. They
have received a number of letters in re-
gard to it-one from Mr.. Wallace and one
from one of kent's former owners, but
neither is able to give any information as
to where Lady Griswold was bred or
raised or her breeders name. One stated
that Lady Griswold's dam was thorough
bred-a very fine mare that was taken
from Canada. 1t is fact that in the
different sales and transfers of a horse.
the sire of horse is often kept correct
when its history. where it was bred and
raised and the name of its breeder are lost.
But it cannot be said that a horses sire is
known for a certainty until the name of
its breeder is given and it is known where
it was bred and raised. So it can be said
as to Lady Griswold. her sire cannot be
called for certainty Flying Morgan until
her full history is known.
Within the past year we have made some
attempts to learn the facts as to Lady
GriswOld, but with no success at first 1t
was known that she was a gray mare.
and all understood she was by Adams
Flying Morgan; but no one knew why
or how it was so called. Mr.Adams in his
bill or book for Flying Morgan the sea-
son of 1860, speaking of his stock. says I:
''He is the sire of Lady Cushman, four
year-old, sold to Tower & Wetherey of
Massachusetts at high price; could
trot in :35. "We saw MIR. Adams, Centen-
NAL year, and he said Lady Cushman
was gray mare. We see now our
mistake in not learning more particulars
as to her at that time. In trying to get
information in regard to Lady Griswold
the thought at last occurred that she
might be the mare Lady Cushman, and
that it would be we'll first to learn her
history. A letter was written Mr.. Adams
asking him to give what facts he could
as to the mare Lady Cushman. He said,
in reply, that about the year 1854 a
pedlar of Soule's pills with large, coarse
gray mare, some eight or ten years old
stopped at his place in Burlington, VT,
and wanted to breed the mare to his horse
as the farmers spoke so highly of him
and that they made trade, he taking
pills for the service of the horse. Some
time afterwards, Mr.. Adams wrote. q
man called on him and stated that he
traded for the pedlar's mare when in foa
to his horse and that the mare brought
fine filly. Mr.. Adams knew that DR.
, Cushman of East Highgate, VT, purchas
ed the filly and that it was the one he
= called Lady Cushman. a letter was
written DIR. l.. l.. Cushman, and he re
, piled stating that he purchased Lady
Cushman in 1857, the winter she wa,
) coming four, of Asa Asyltine, Swanton
VT, for Sl25 that he sold her when fiv,
to Tower & Wetherley for about $500
She could trot then better than tire,
minutes, and she was the fastest colt il
. those parts. He stated that they called